Say something nice about another ILXor

ow my rib

omar little is named after a great character.

(go cubs)

do we have a 'backhanded compliments' thread cuz uh

felicity!

Felicity w/the ten years later callback!

euler started the amanda meme here, and i would like to thank them for that

haha thanks, it is a favorite around my house & I am happy to have shared it with others

what's that?

Scroll down: Boston - Third Stage

omg that! i hated that!
no shade on any individual ilxor but my name is @manda and it's hard to see that stuff :(

weird how i managed to forget about it and when i saw "boston" it all came rushing back.

lol that’s funny, i just reshared it with someone who was named after the song

she loves it but i can def see why you would hate it

when i was in 8th gr i went to a new school (my first co-ed institution) and boys used to yell down the hallway "i'm gonna take you by the thighs and make you realize AMANDA" and i was very sensitive and young. it scared me. i realize this is my own situation and it's obviously ancient history but it seems worth mentioning why i don't find it amusing.

ugh <3

Felicity Redwell?!

Felicity, a sephora is opening across the street from your old apt.

It seems like everyone made it through 8th grade largely intact and for that I applaud you all, because that’s a year that sucks

My 8th grade was a big improvement on my 7th grade.

in my limited experience, that is an extremely low bar

define "largely intact"

seriously
8th grade gave me a preview of what i could expect from high school and what i saw was not super great

I can def relate to being scared in 8th grade.

I'm sorry La Lechera

I try now to make non sexual versions of it but I can see that those aren't necessarily any better

I'M GONNA TRY POSTING SOMETHING ELSE
A POST THAT WON'T REPEL

LA LECHERA

thank you :)
that's a charming rhyme -- else/repel is a clever rhyme!

THAT'S A CHARMING RHYME
ELSE/REPEL IS A CLEVER RHYME

LA LECHERA

:-/
can we stop now please?

Aw sorry! Now I feel bad...

now i have to listen to that scary sludgy slowed down chipmunk punk version of that song (the only version of that song i recognize as real)

drive by shout outs to Yerac, Maura, Moka, sarahell, dmac, FA, EL and all of you fine peoples

another rep to Alfred, who is a great writer and personality, always got yer back

love you

big love my main man :)

Alfred should have an academic sinecure teaching rhetoric at, like, Harvard imho

- de l'asshole (flopson), Saturday, May 28, 2016

Update: this is happened, only not at Harvard.

this is happened

(Aimless pulls out his trusty red pen with a flourish.)

put that pen down, you'll ruin the screen!

aimless is a key reference point for decency and fairness imo

well, damn if that's not the nicest thing I've heard today. thank you.

I concur. Most of us have done our part to earn the flak we receive 'round these parts, but I'm always baffled when people take aim at Aimless.

Aimless fan here.

sometimes i start reading a post and it has a kind of regular talking plain guy just saying some reasonable stuff tone and i immediately think it's an aimless post and it never disappoints it always is and sometimes this immediate recognition is amusing and sometimes it's annoying bc it makes me feel like i'm being lectured about something i already know. but lots of ppl don't know anything at all about anything so for them it's probably useful material.

like you see sometimes people have different tastes in styles of communication and some people like a more complex idea presented in a more compelling tone and some people like more straight forward homespun wisdom and sometimes people in one group may not understand what the people in the other group are seeing because perspectives are complex and we all see things from our own point of view. a nine to me could look like a six to you. and so it's best to be kind by recognizing our own limitations in seeing another perspective.

Mordy I've really been appreciating your posts on the Amazing News From The Natural World thread, thanks

Ay yi yi

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Mordy otm

mordy thank u for that post. ive been thinking about this a ton in my own life lately:

sometimes people in one group may not understand what the people in the other group are seeing because perspectives are complex and we all see things from our own point of view. a nine to me could look like a six to you. and so it's best to be kind by recognizing our own limitations in seeing another perspective”

engendering a kind of fundamental humility, I guess. like what the fuck do i know? someone posted in the masculinity thread something like “it must be nice to feel so sure of things” and it got lost in the thread but it resonated with me.

there are a lot of different kinds of people in the world, and people are complex, difference exists I remind myself all the time and it helps me to be a compassionate person and less concerned with having right or wrong opinions and beliefs

or whether someone I’m interacting with has right or wrong opinions and beliefs

^ def something i need to work on

great thread today

I'll add my voice to the chorus of Aimless praise.

That said, as a follow-up to what Mordy said, what strikes us as common sense or an attempt at understanding the topic at hand from a reasonable angle may be construed as covert ideology. It goes without saying that I don't believe that to be the case in this instance (or it's an ideology I agree with), but I'm afraid his efforts ultimately did very little to bridge the communication gap, which is somewhat tragic.

someone posted in the masculinity thread something like “it must be nice to feel so sure of things” and it got lost in the thread but it resonated with me.

Yeah, that was an (unsurprisingly) underrated comment. I think it was FernandoHierro.

yes it was thank you! I had trouble finding it